We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
(Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life )
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.Anne Lamott
A hundred years for now All new people.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
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Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
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